[Tutor] Testing print

[Alan Gauld]

On 01/10/16 05:24, boB Stepp wrote:

> ===============================================================================
> '''Exerise 3.1 from "Think Python 2" by Allen Downey.
> 
> This module will take a string and right justify it so that the last character
> of the line will fall in column 70 of the display.  The results will be
> printed to stdout.'''
> 
> def right_justify(a_string):
     <snip>
> def print_msgs(*msgs):
>     '''Prints messages to stdout.'''
> 
>     for msg in msgs:
>         print(msg)
> 
> def main(input_strings):
>     '''Run main program.'''
> 
>     print('0123456789' * 7)    # Print a number guide to check length of line.
>     for input_string in input_strings:
>         print_msgs(*right_justify(input_string))

Do you need print_msgs()?
Won't it work the same with

           print(right_justify(input_string))

You are only feeding one line at a time into the print msgs.

You could do it all in a new print_msgs() like:

def print_msgs(formatter, msgs):
    for msg in msgs:
        print(formatter(msg))

And main() reduces to

def main():
    print_msgs(right_justify, input_strings)

But I think I'd just leave it as you have it but
without the print_msgs()...


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